Germany
Germany: Germany moves to the left
Train drivers’ strike over wages and hours
Around the world
Myanmar-Burma
Burma: Military Junta crushes movement but embers of resistance still alight
Official figures belie extent of killings, maimings, disappearances and arrests
Malaysia
Malaysia: Independent class politics and socialist programme
Only way to counter racial and reactionary religious policies
Pakistan
Pakistan: Martial law imposed
Constitution suspended, fundamental rights denied
Nigeria
Nigeria: Free the students campaign, next steps
Further reports of international solidarity picket and new plan
Britain
Britain: Respect in crisis – what lessons for socialists?
Heading rapidly towards a split between the two main forces who founded it in 2004.
Italy
Italy: Mass demonstration in Rome
Crisis and confusion remain
Bangladesh
Bangladesh: 25,000 textile workers protest against poor wages
Textile workers are on the move again.
Nigeria
Nigeria: Imprisoned students get world-wide support
Simultaneous pickets demand their release and the dropping of all charges
Turkey
Turkey: Invasion threat increases regional instability
Bloody fighting between Turkish troops and PKK Kurdish separatist guerrillas on the Turkey/Iraq border has enormously ratcheted-up tensions between the two countries.